 Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. |
| Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. |
| It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. |
| Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. |
| Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. |
| A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. |
| True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. |
| That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. |
| Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. |
| We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe. |
| Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. |
| The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. |
| Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. |
| Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. |
| Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you. |
| The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. |
| If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. |
| A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. |
| There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. |
| What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. |
